This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tully’s books, yet they overflow with a deep felt compassion for the humanity that few writers could find within these broken men.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of America’s best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice. This Ring eBooks edition of this forgotten American classic is DRM free.